Wizard's Journey

Chapter 162 The Dregs of Ancient Knowledge

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Green looked at the towering building in front of him, which was hundreds of meters high and resembled an open book in a "V" shape, and was slightly surprised.

"With this shape, it's no wonder it's easily recognizable on the map. The Seventh Ring Holy Tower Basic Knowledge Library was designed like this; it's quite clear and eye-catching." Green muttered to himself before falling from the sky.

In front of the library's main entrance are over a hundred steps, and a stone tablet is inscribed with the profound saying, "Give me endless knowledge, and I will use myself as a fulcrum to move the endless world," but no one pays any attention to it.

Because these kinds of stone tablets are too common in the wizarding world.

Green glanced at the stone tablet indifferently, then, without any expression, kept his distance from the wizard in front of him and stepped onto the stairs.

At the library's main entrance, there were several three-meter-tall humanoid mechanical puppets, their heads making slight mechanical twisting sounds as they scanned the wizards coming and going. An automated monitoring crystal ball recorded their real-time movements above the mechanical puppets, and some library rules and regulations were marked on the chest of each mechanical puppet.

Unlike in the wizarding academy, where wizarding apprentices had to pay magic stones to obtain basic knowledge in the library, as a witcher wizard, no further fees will be charged if you only want to acquire some basic theoretical knowledge.

This can be considered one of the most basic benefits for witch hunters.

After a while.

A delicate female humanoid creature with cicada wings on its back and only half a meter tall led the way, and Green arrived at the voodoo book section on the fifteenth floor of the library.

He casually gave her half a magic stone as a tip, and the female humanoid thanked him with delight before turning and flying away.

Beneath his pale mask, Green's eyes scanned the vast array of books in the library. Judging by sight alone, there were no fewer than several thousand books on this three-meter-high bookshelf.

Moreover, these books vary in size and are not arranged as neatly as those in the college library. Some ancient scrolls are even displayed at the bottom corner of the bookshelves, completely ignored.

These scrolls contain the "dregs" of the ancient wizarding knowledge system.

Of course, without a doubt, all the knowledge recorded in the books and scrolls here is closely related to voodoo knowledge, which is why it appears here, even if it is considered "dross" of ancient knowledge by modern wizards.

He leisurely selected some good-looking books from the bookshelf in front of him. Under the combined force of repulsion and attraction, these books floated in the air, seemingly waiting for Green to review them.

This is also why, after Green advanced to become a formal wizard, he could guide the earth's ley lines' repulsive and attractive abilities through the power of nature, and even after calculating the repulsive and attractive forces, he was no longer centered on himself.

As for the scrolls, Green, like the wizards who used to frequent this place, didn't pay them much attention.

Green first opened the book, which was a full meter long and half a meter thick. After carefully reading the introduction on the first few pages, Green frowned under his pale mask. He spent half an hour of time skimming through the book, "The Formula for Calculating the Nineteenth Proportional Equation of Voodoo," before disappointedly putting it back on the bookshelf.

This book on voodoo is likely a preliminary summary of voodoo dosage and administration by modern wizarding pioneers using rational and intelligent formulas and calculation methods, made after the Second Civilization War in the wizarding world.

This method of measurement and allocation is the biggest difference between modern wizards and ancient wizards.

Modern wizards have categorized voodoo into seven types based on the different ways in which organisms die from poisoning. Green had already encountered this knowledge when he first received the mixed-poison body-refining witchcraft, so I will not go into details here.

However, before the Second Civilization War, the ancient wizards, and even the ancient wizards, whether they practiced elemental magic, voodoo, or alchemy apprentices, all their wizarding knowledge seemed like mysticism, lacking the basic knowledge and calculation formulas that modern wizards have in a table-like format.

The ancient wizards possessed countless inherited magical scrolls, formulas, and processes.

The so-called knowledge recorded on those scroll recipes was not derived from systematic calculations based on a list of basic elemental properties, as is the case with modern wizards. Instead, the knowledge on those scrolls was merely a result of ancient wizards conducting long-term, experimental trials involving "luck" based on their own circumstances and certain natural phenomena. These trials led to the development of a knowledge system applicable to themselves, which was then recorded and evolved into ancient magical scrolls whose underlying principles cannot be explained.

Overall, the knowledge of ancient witchcraft is similar to the emergence of the Blood Doll witchcraft.

Although modern wizards have used reverse reasoning to calculate some of the basic theoretical knowledge of ancient witchcraft, there are still some strange and wonderful witchcrafts that leave modern wizards greatly puzzled.

It is precisely because ancient wizards conducted their magical experiments in such a manner that, although their overall level of knowledge was a whole level behind that of modern wizards, all their magical knowledge was derived from their own circumstances and was entirely applicable to them.

Therefore, almost every ancient wizard was a nightmare-level wizard apprentice!

Of course, while the ancient wizards were powerful, they were only powerful individuals within the overall level.

The widespread adoption of systematic, formulaic elemental knowledge among modern wizards has, while preventing many from creating their own unique magical practices and resulting in a proliferation of "apprentice trash" in wizarding academies, thus diminishing their individual strength compared to ancient wizards, has also led to a qualitative leap in the overall development of wizarding civilization. This has reached a level unimaginable to ancient wizards, meaning that even some elite among the modern "trash" wizards are now capable of rivaling their predecessors.

The so-called "apprentice trash" in modern wizarding civilization refers to wizarding apprentices who study magic and sorcery books verbatim. Their highest attack power is about 80 to 100 degrees, and they are cannon fodder during the Holy Tower Qualifying War.

The modern wizarding civilization is an era of explosive civilizational development!

Green opened the second, relatively finely crafted voodoo book, a magical text written by a modern wizard.

A moment later, Green shook his head in disappointment again.

The basic theoretical knowledge of voodoo recorded in this book is not much different from the knowledge of mixed poison body tempering that I have come into contact with. The way of thinking is also similar. Both take the individual situation of each wizard as the starting point and derive the formula based on the basic systematic theoretical formula.

However, this is precisely why Green was disappointed.

This book offers absolutely nothing that Green could learn from; it's simply a simplified, alternative version of the knowledge system of poison-based body tempering.

If there were time to slowly calculate and arrive at the voodoo formula, then why would Green even come to the library?

The reason Green came to the library this time was because in the hundreds of years to come, or even longer, he would have a vacuum in his elemental magic power due to his long-term research on the power of annihilation. Therefore, he needed to improve his strength in another way to achieve a balance that would allow him to survive and thus obtain more benefits to support his experimental research.

However, if Green were to slowly research the new voodoo formula using theoretical calculations and axioms of mixed poison body tempering, while this would be the right path and would even lead to steady progress on the path of body tempering wizards, there is no doubt that researching mixed poison body tempering would consume a great deal of Green's time. Consequently, the research on the power of annihilation, which might have yielded some results in a few hundred or even a thousand years, would be indefinitely delayed.

Most importantly, Green's ambition is to become an elemental wizard, not a body-refining wizard!

Green would rather endure hundreds of years of obscurity, like during his wizarding apprenticeship, before achieving great fame and becoming a nightmare figure that many wizards could only dream of, than live a mediocre life where rules, fate, and melodies dictate the direction of one's life, with one's own existence being negligible.

Therefore, Green only has three things to do.

First, I must use all my abilities to shorten the research time for the power of annihilation, accelerate my research pace, and strive to end the vacuum period of my elemental magic power as soon as possible.

Secondly, to improve the external strength of one's elemental magic during the vacuum period in the shortest possible time, so as to better preserve one's life for experimental research, and even to strive for certain benefits and thus shorten the research period of the power of annihilation through external forces.

Third, he should focus all his efforts on breaking through to the wizard level. Although this would not improve his knowledge leverage ability in the alien world he was fighting in, it would greatly enhance his mental strength, which could be considered a form of strength improvement, and he could use it to save his life.

Therefore, Green would certainly not spend a lot of time following the normal cultivation and meditation route, like the normal mixed poison body-refining witchcraft, calculating and combining the toxicity of the voodoo poison step by step according to the experimental process, then conducting on-the-spot experiments, and then proceeding to body-refining cultivation...

Green's passive double evolution allowed him to skip the physical experiment of mixing poison and refining his body during his apprenticeship as a wizard, saving him a lot of time. This allowed him, an elemental wizard, to use a combination of physical strength and elemental magic in the Holy Tower qualifiers, overwhelming the other elemental wizard apprentices.

Of course, with the support of the Peranos Radiation Stone first, and the "laziness" of the Evil-Eyed Miluo later, Green also failed to calculate the process of developing new voodoo formulas during his wizarding apprenticeship.

At this moment, Green actually wanted to continue this foolish mistake in order to achieve his goal of greatly improving his strength in a short period of time.

And the consequences of doing so...

Green may indeed be able to improve his strength in the short term, but he cannot improve indefinitely, and may even stagnate forever. One day, if Green wants to continue to achieve something on the path of mixed poison body tempering, he must rely on his own wisdom to start from the heart and calculate the voodoo formula suitable for him step by step.

When the time comes, Green will definitely pay a higher price for his "foolishness" at this moment, which is also one of the balance rules of the endless world.

After reading through numerous books on voodoo, Green shook his head in disappointment.

It seems that if I want to save time, I can only use magic stones or even witch essence to exchange for some standard voodoo recipes from other wizards.

So, these expenses...

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Grimm, who was frowning, inadvertently saw an open ancient scroll and suddenly froze!

Suddenly, Green slapped his head hard, and a look of surprise and excitement suddenly appeared in his eyes beneath his pale mask!

What's wrong with me?

Why did I suddenly do something stupid all of a sudden!

He actually thought of exchanging voodoo recipes from the modern wizarding system with other wizards, instead of using the strange voodoo recipes from the ancient wizards he was visiting, who seemed like trash.

Although most of these ancient voodoo recipes are unsuitable for personal use due to a lack of ingredients, unsuitable toxicity for body tempering, or simply because the specific toxicity of the voodoo cannot be controlled, there must be some that are applicable to body tempering with mixed poisons in the present era.

After all, at this time, Green was just a body-refining wizard with a physique of only 139, far from having the strong resistance to poison of a high-level wizard who could be picky about things.

Perhaps for other hybrid poison-body-refining wizards, these strange voodoo formulas with uncontrollable toxicity from ancient wizards are completely useless. However, for Green, who has a stronger ability to adapt through dual evolution, he can accept some voodoo formulas with relatively stable toxicity left behind by ancient wizards because he can adapt to a wider range of voodoo fluctuations during passive evolution.

Overjoyed, Green squatted down and began frantically searching through those ancient scrolls that had been ignored before, which were considered by modern wizards to be the dregs of ancient knowledge.

three days later.

After recording the six voodoo scroll recipes he had selected from thousands of ancient voodoo scrolls in a crystal ball, Green left the library satisfied.

After spending more than a dozen hourglasses, Green purchased some materials for the research project on the power of annihilation and various materials improved from the ancient voodoo scroll, and flew back to his demon hunter castle once again.

(End of this chapter)